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Pectin
Also searched as: jam sugar, apple pectin, pectin
In short: Pectin is the glue in plant cells. With sugar and acid it forms gels; when vegetables cook, it dissolves.
Picture it
The same mortar that holds vegetables together makes jam set.
What Pectin does
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What happens
In fruit and vegetables, pectin binds the cells together. Extracted and boiled with a lot of sugar and acid, it forms a gel.
What the ingredient does
makes jam setSetting with pectin
keeps vegetables firmVegetables soften (pectin breakdown)
Rules of thumb
- Jam sugar already contains pectin and acid.
Sources · 1
- Harold McGee: On Food and Cooking (2004), Kapitel Milch, Zucker, Schokolade